Freedombone
Freedombone is a home server Debian derivative for self-hosting of internet services such as email, blog, chat, file storage and many other web apps.
- Status: active (2013 - present)
Homepage: https://freedombone.net
Origin story: https://freedombone.net/about.html
- Funding model: Donations/Patreon
- Location: UK
Install: https://freedombone.net/install_desktop.html | https://freedombone.net/install_sbc.html | https://freedombone.net/admin.html
- hardware wishlist: Any recent ARM based single board computers capable of running a fully free software stack without closed boot blobs. Any new Beagleboards which have onboard ethernet.
- hardware supported: amd64, Beaglebone Black, Beaglebone Green (the version without wifi), Beagleboard x15, Cubieboard 2, Cubietruck, PCduino 3, Olinuxino Lime, Olinuxino Lime 2, Olinuxino Micro, Banana Pro, APU
user XMPP: support@chat.freedombone.net
- user Matrix: #fbone:matrix.freedombone.net
Security contact: bob@freedombone.net (preferably XMPP with OMEMO)
Debian derivatives census page: Derivatives/Census/Freedombone
Debian derivatives census output: http://deriv.debian.net/Freedombone/
- Distribution type: disk image
- Debian derivative model: uses Debian binary packages, adds extra configuration and scripts
- Debian archive quantity: uses all repos except for nonfree
- Based on: Debian stable
- Interfaces: console, web based admin
- Init systems: systemd
- Archive tool: Uses duplicity for backups
- Image build: based on the debian minimal install
Image tool: freedombone-image command, based upon a modified version of vmdebootstrap (not the Debian version) https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/vmdebootstrap
- Install tool: dd
VCS repository: https://code.freedombone.net/bashrc/freedombone | https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/freedombone
- Architectures: amd64 armhf arm64
- dpkg vendor: Debian
Docs about Freedombone for Debian developers: https://freedombone.net/devguide.html
CI/autopkgtest information: birbci https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/birbci
- mirror tools: rsync
downloads: https://freedombone.net/downloads
The particular Debian repo used is configurable.
deb http://ftp.[repo]/debian/ buster main
deb-src http://ftp.[repo]/debian/ buster main
deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main
deb http://ftp.[repo]/debian/ buster-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.[repo]/debian/ buster-updates main
Last updated 6th Aug 2019